Chris Cella
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. And, and it kind of just progressed. Um, you know, I was like doing like, you know, one, one pill, 140 milligram pill every couple of days to two every couple of days to, you know, and just going up and up and the cost was getting too expensive.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You, you, you quickly develop a tolerance and, uh, Yeah. And you just need more and more to get to that because you're always chasing that first high. You know, you're never going to get it again. But that's what like, you know, the chasing the dragon. You're always trying to get to that level, but you're never going to get there. Right.
Yeah, no, it's, and, and you, you, you're so desperate to try to get back there. And, and that kind of, you know, the whole like, you know, addiction makes you insane. It's like, you know, you're never really going to get back there, but you're still trying. And, uh,
Yeah. I mean, you know, like the definition of insanity, trying things over and over again, expecting the different result, especially when you get into the point where you're like you're trying to get sober and like, OK, yeah, this hasn't worked 15 times. Maybe it'll work the 16th. Why? And so, but yeah, so I was, yeah, so it progressed very quickly.
Yeah, 10th grade. Yeah. And progressed within, I don't know, maybe like two, three months to buying heroin up in, you know, South Los Angeles. And what was that like? Wild, dude. So, you know, basically what happened was we met this guy. I think he was at like the continuation school down the street from our high school. And what's continuation school?
It's like basically if you get like booted out of, you know, a regular high school, it's kind of like. It's kind of like a way to get a diploma without having to get a GED. But like it's like kind of like a – it's like a bootleg diploma.
Yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. I mean they even like – even though there was like mostly kids under the age of 18, they had a little smoking section at the school. It was hilarious. I grew up with that. Yeah. And I, yeah, I mean, I'm still a nicotine fiend. I vape, but I quit smoking cigarettes.
I was like, you know, I, and I was honestly, I was pretty impressed with myself that I was able to do that because that was almost, I don't want to say almost as hard, but very difficult. And, you know, trying to get rid of that addiction, you know, compared to my opiate addiction, but, you know, just.
Yeah, it's really a hard addiction to break, and I'm still addicted to nicotine. Yeah, me too. But I'm enjoying it, I will say, Chris. Yeah, me too.
Yeah, yeah.
Just some, just like slimy, just dirt bag. And I mean, I don't, yeah, I mean, just, yeah, just some guy that, you know, we were only, the only reason we associated with him was because he had that connection. And yeah, not exactly, you know, he's the type of guy who would steal your wallet and help you look for it. But again, that's what most junkies are. Was he using heroin too?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was, um, he was a big user and he was actually ripped. I found out he was ripping us off when I got a direct connection and he was basically saying it was double the price for the amount. Cause you get like a, you get a little package with 12 balloons in it and it was $45 and he was saying it was $90.
So he's able to like get to pocket one and give one and give one to, to us. So did you have to go with him to South LA? Yeah, I, we would drive him. He didn't have a car. So, um, you know, I would drive him in my, uh, my 1998 Jeep and we'd all just pile in there. And this, the feds were watching like these, like they literally, there was an article in the OC register, um,
I think it came out while I was in rehab, but, uh, basically just kind of giving an overview of the whole thing. The number you'd call, the guy's name was boss. So you call this phone number and, and this guy goes, all right, how, what do you want? And you tell him how many packs you want. And then he's like, all right, meet.
And it would be like one of three freeway exits, you know, right in that area. And like always like a fast food parking lot, something like that. Yeah. What, what town? It was Southgate. Boy, that's just depressing, that area. So, so, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, yeah, some, yeah, we can just pull in real quick. And then they'd – You'd meet the – they would always send a runner and usually it was a different person. But I started – so yeah, they'd meet you. They'd say, all right, come into the car. You get into the passenger seat. They reach into the air vent, pull it out, give you the dope, give them the money.
Yeah.
Um, you know, this is, this is the kind of one of the crazier things about this whole, this whole experience. So the runner that I had the most contact with, uh, he was, you know, he's a cool guy, just this little Hispanic guy, you know, I mean, obviously a gangbanger who would, you know, shoot you as soon as they look at you, but, um... He was very, you know, very nice to me.
And, you know, he would give me discounts occasionally. And he actually, finally, he was like, hey, you know what? You no longer have to call boss. You can just hear, I'll give you my personal line. And you can just call me and then, you know, have to save you the hassle of going through the whole process. I was like, oh, cool, man. Thanks.
And so, you know, we developed a kind of, you know, friendship, I guess. And it's probably the wildest story that I have. So... So my friends from South Orange County, again, very affluent. I don't know if you've heard of like Nellie Gale in South Orange County. It's like one of the ritziest neighborhoods in the country. It's got like horse trails running through it.
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